If it doesn’t specifically say your Flickr Pro account will renew automatically on this page, you may be screwed too.Short Answer: The best Flickr alternative for most people is definitely Google Photos,, or Shutterfly. You can check to see if you are eligible to renew your Flickr Pro account here. I’m still a big fan of today’s design changes and the 1 terabyte free account that Flickr unveiled today, but disappointed that long time Pro account users may now lose their Pro account status. To offer someone unlimited uploads only to renege on that promise later for attending one of their photowalks feels wrong to me. I’m assuming that Flickr will sort some of this out before my Pro account expires in July, but I’m certainly concerned that Flickr would so easily take away Pro accounts from long time members who have supported the site with paid Pro accounts over the years.

There is a post on Flickr’s help forum about this here, where a Flickr staffer confirms that only some of Flickr Pro accounts are eligible for renewal. This is just wrong and also contrary to what I was told earlier today.įlickr should allow all Pro account users the ability to keep their Pro status, and not discriminate against those of us who happened to attend their San Francisco Photowalk last year. Now, today, I’ve been screwed out of my deal because I made the mistake of attending Flickr’s San Francisco photowalk and redeeming a 6 months certificate for free Pro that they handed out.

I’ve invested thousands of hours uploading over 80,000 photos to Flickr with the understanding that I was purchasing unlimited photo storage. Yesterday, I thought Flickr was doing a very fair thing by allowing Pro accounts to continue on as Pros by paying $24.95 per year. Now I’ll be forced to pay Flickr twice as much ($49.99 instead of $24.99) to remove my ads - and since I probably use more than a terabyte of storage, my Flickr fees will probably increase from $24.95/year to $499.99/year.

As it stands now, my Pro account will expire in July of this year with no way to renew it. If I’d not accepted it then, I could be grandfathered as a paid Pro account along with everyone else.

I wish I’d never accepted the Flickr trojan horse “gift” of 6 months of free Pro at the San Francisco Photowalk. So, after paying consistently for two years at a time of Pro on Flickr for years, my Flickr Pro account is now not eligible for renewal, and I’m not grandfathered into the Pro Flickr service.